Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUGUST IN MILL VALLEY, by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS First Line: The brook is singing a slumber song Last Line: But rose-haws and august are glowing red in the sun! Subject(s): Mill Valley, California | ||||||||
The brook is singing a slumber song. Above the water white birches lean, veiling with leaves their bodies' slimness, as maidens hide them in their loosened hair. The pool in their shade is a mirror of burnished bronze, holding their image. White limbs of bathing children gleam from the shadows. Light glows on the green and gold of their garments, swathing them as the green calyx folds the unopened flower. The senses swoon with the cicada's song. Spring, with the sweetness and bloom of the wild-rose, has gone, But rose-haws and August are glowing red in the sun! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GULLIVER WAKES by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JACOB GODBEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by THOMAS GRAY THE ENCHANTMENT by THOMAS OTWAY SONNET: ENGLAND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM TRAVELLER BY NIGHT, SELECTION by JOANNA BAILLIE |
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